Friday, November 22, 2013

The Mud Files in New Bratz Brawls


The Mud files in New Bratz Brawls

I read an article by Ann Zimmerman called It’s the dolls Rematch. It says that Mattel Inc., was going to court to prove once again that Isaac Larian’s MGA Entertainment Inc.  stole the toy company’s intellectual property when it created the popular Bratz doll line a decade ago and this case will determined who is the rightful owner of the sultry looking of dolls. Also there case being litigated in federal court in Santa Ana, Calif., will be devoted to dueling allegations that each company engaged in a host of dirty deeds in an effort to steal trade secrets. "This will be a remarkable trial," Judge David O. Carter said during pretrial motions in the case in October, according to a transcript. MGA alleges at least four former Mattel employees, with the knowledge of Mattel executives, disguised themselves as retailers or toy distributors and complete with fake business cards and dummy invoices and to gain access to competitors' show rooms at toy fairs and glean information on rivals' newest products, price lists and marketing strategies, according to court documents. In an email written by Mattel Chief Executive Robert Eckert that has been presented to the court as evidence, he asks one of his executives if he wants him "to kill" a deal between Mattel and video company THQ. It was who made the Bratz videogames. Mattel disputes both allegations. Mike Zeller, an attorney for Mattel, said the information that MGA claims was stolen weren't trade secrets. "In many cases, MGA had released it to the public." Moreover, Mr. Zeller says MGA's allegations about the events involving THQ are confused and inaccurate. He says “it is reasonable and lawful for a company to evaluate whether to do business with another company if it has concerns.” Mattel, for its part, accuses MGA employees of sneaking into its showrooms to peek at coming products during toy fairs, according to court documents. Then there is the allegation of purloined papers. Mattel alleges that MGA stole trade secrets by encouraging Mattel employees from Mexico, Canada and the U.S. to download Mattel documents before coming to work at MGA, according to court documents.

 I think this whole thing is cine of amazing and crazy that dolls companies really had all these things going on.

Thursday, November 14, 2013

ECO Supreme Court Prayer


EOC Supreme Court Prayer

The source is NBC News it says that in Washington that the Supreme Court, is testing how far they can go in government bodies can offering prayers at the beginning of an official meetings. There was  a after courtroom arguments in a case that was brought by two women from upstate New York that they though that justices had no interest in eliminating prayers at government meetings. They say instead they use justices grappled with that they” could come up limits to the prayer without making those disagree with the message feel coerced  into participating, or fear that they may alienate government officials.” Also that justice Elena Kagan was thinking if it would be permissible for the Supreme Court to open the sessions by having a minister face the lawyers and to have them “Acknowledge the saving sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross.”  Like for if they had the chief justice then called your case by using making an members sign of the cross would that make it okay. Thomas Hungar, a lawyer for the town, said that he did not think so but in this case prayer before a legislative body, the court doctrine has found that the country, “from its very foundations and founding,” allow it, he said. Also the thorny nature of the case was apparent throughout the argument. Some justices wondered what would be an acceptable prayer to appeal to all faiths, and the nonbelievers. Justice Antonin Scalia asked, to laugher in the courtroom: “What about devil-worshippers?” “Who is going to make this determination?” said John Roberts wanted to know. Scalia drew a distinction between prayers before a legislative session and prayers before a judicial session, as in Kagan’s example. “They are there as citizens,” Scalia said, speaking of legislators. “And as citizens, they bring to their job all of — all of the predispositions that citizens have. And these people perhaps invoke the deity at meals. They should not be able to invoke it before they undertake a serious governmental task such as enacting laws or ordinances?” This is some things that they had to face.

When it happened in class I thought it was different and that I wasn’t expecting it. But I being a Christian I liked it but not everyone is so I think it would be respectable even if not right to say a prayer for other religions too.

 

 

Thursday, October 24, 2013

The Erin Brockovich PG&E Case

The sore I use was from the website chasing the frog .com it has a Erin Brockovich story that says some things she said on what the story that the movie is based on. It says that in 1996 PG&E on the settlement with the Pacific Gas and Electric Company that settled the case for $333 million. It says that this settlement was the largest settlement ever awarded in a direct-action lawsuit in the history of the United States. The same as in the movie it says the lawyers did get 40% that came to the amount of $133 million. Some of the victims were not happy that they received $300,000 each, after they were billed an extra $10 million for undetailed expenses and PG&E. But some had received less and others had received millions. It said that the reason why they had received that much was because of their medical records but the medical records were never looked at, said Carol Smith one of the victims after talking to his doctors then some of the plaintiffs their settlements, to seek the amount that they felt were more justified. As on Awesome story.com said that PG&E were required to clean up the environment and to stop using chromium 6.
The plaintiff lawyer did good work and that Erin Brockovich was the person to bring the case all together. She was the one that cared the most about the case and gathered most of the evidence to support the PG&E case. Not how the movie said it but she did other thing to get what she needed for the case as you can read about her other cases too. That some in the movie are true but most of the movie is a lie they burg the essence of the case but the sugar coded something to try it sound not so bad. There is more to this store I know but this is all I could find. You could look and more of the true of the Anderson v. PG&E case.



 

Thursday, October 17, 2013


The Supreme Court

The first thing I read was the article in the Benefits law Journal. About Follow the Money: Can Group Medical Plans Enforce Their Reimbursement Rights under the ERISA .This article talk about the U.S Employee Retirement Income Security Act and how the U.S in order to evaluate whether employer-sponsored medical plans reimbursement is enforceable. The article discusses the U.S Supreme Court cases of Verity Corp.

Saturday, October 5, 2013

Voice
Hi, My name is Michael Warfield I am a video student at AI. I plan to become a director and to start off doing some short comedy films and as i learn more I will find my own thing like all directors do. I want to all maybe want to become a singer one day and build my own record company and direct my own music and to make my own beats and to make some for other Artist to. I see so many artist straggle to make in the music industry and that's why i want to know how to do all the behind the scenes stuff so when other artist come to me.

Also here are some things I like to do on my free time. I like to hang out with friends and family. For example, doing things like going to the mall or just to chill and make jokes or act silly. I like to try practice my craft and try to write a song or make a sort little comedy video of me and friends and family. I like to try to keep fit just so I so can keep my average.

I going to tell some things I have done in my life so far. For example I went to Disneyland with my family on vacation one time. It was fun at first and we did things like ride The Tower Of Tare and the big mickey head ride the. But then we went to go on a water ride they had there and so we were on the ride going the ride gets stuck and we set there for about 2 hours waiting for someone to get us off the ride that was one of my memories I’ve will never forget.

Other thing I would after I graduate from video production is to go back so I could work on having a men fashion line. I can already draw, but to learn the other things that go into building a fashion but don’t know what it will be called yet. But you would know if you hear about it.

Right now I still live with my mom, but I plan to move out when I graduate and stay in Vegas till I work and make some money then move somewhere that I can better pursue my career. I also want to try to put a lot of time in my work but I’m going to start doing that now.

One of my favorite to be continued